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Brewster, just sit down and talk this over reasonably with Mr. Perkins." "Oh, no," said the third conferee positively; "I've no time for argument. At six o'clock I 'll be back here. Unless you decide by then, I'll telephone the consulate that the whole thing is off." "Of all the impudent, conceited, self-important young whippersnappers!" fumed Mr. Brewster.
So they carried their point with high heads, and every body hated, abused, and stood in awe of the Fantadlins. Such was the state of the fashionable world in this self-important little town. Unluckily I was not as well acquainted with its politics as I should have been.
It seemed to Copplestone that it would have been a physical impossibility to crowd more people within the walls than had assembled when the coroner, a local solicitor, who was obviously testy, irritable, self-important and afflicted with deafness, took his seat and looked sourly on the crowd of faces.
It makes us feel less self-important, sometimes, when we stop to consider that about one half the human race, even at the present day, have no idea of our existence. Well, Bainbridge delivered his cargo, and then sailed back to Algiers with orders from the Sultan to the Dey.
But this they had expected, and both Patty and Bill were more than ready to ignore and excuse any lapses of etiquette. However, they were not prepared for Azalea's attitude, which was that of self-important bravado.
Averil and Ella quickly improved, grew stronger in the intervals, and suffered less during the attacks; but Minna, who in their own house had been less ill, had waited on both, and supplied the endless deficiencies of the kindly and faithful, but two-fisted Katty; Minna, whose wise and simple little head had never failed in sensible counsels, or tender comfort; Minna, whom the rudest and most self-important far-wester never disobliged, Minna, the peace-maker, the comfort and blessing was laid low by fever, and fever that, as the experienced eyes of Cousin Deborah at once perceived, 'meant mischief. Then it was that the real kindliness of heart of the rough people of the West showed itself.
You always gamble; and when you're in good-luck you gambol, and when you aren't, you don't. What makes me sickest about you all is that you're so nauseatingly conceited and self-important. You all think that your beastly old Stock Exchange is the axle about which the wheel of the world revolves, and each of you thinks, privately, that he's the particular grease that makes it revolve smoothly."
Wife, children, friends, servants, all have the same character, only differently shaded: except that, if any of them can become his tyrants and tormentors, they all are ready for the task. I have studied the noble arts both of tickling and tormenting: by which I have subjected this very self-important race to my will and pleasure.
The jury learned that the young man's quest of the Paternoster ruby had not been undertaken without the stimulus of a very warm-hearted devotion. Maillot was left sitting in the witness-chair while a new verdict was made out. It formally charged the young man with the murder of his uncle. I afterward learned, by questioning the self-important foreman, that the first verdict had been an open one.
"But if the other man was the Lord of the Manor's brother?" "Oh, that wouldn't make any difference. He might very well be less self-important than anything in a bit of scarlet and medals if he had been the Lord of the Manor himself. Why, the Earl of Roxley got tea for me, and was most attentive." Doris's eyes opened wider.
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